- Also known as
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James Gillray
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primary name: Gillray, James
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pseudonym: (Lieutenant) Swarts
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abbreviation of pseudonym Thomas Adams: As, Ts
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other name: Zethen, Charlotte
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pseudonym: Adams, Thomas
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pseudonym: C_L, Henry
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pseudonym: Helagabatis
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pseudonym: Humphrey, Thomas
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pseudonym: Hurd,J
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pseudonym: J S
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pseudonym: Kent, J
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pseudonym: Maidstone
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pseudonym: Schoebert, John
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pseudonym: Sejanus
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pseudonym: Shones
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pseudonym: Zechzin
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signature: X
- Details
- individual; printmaker; British; Male
- Life dates
- 1756-1815
- Address
- 7 Little Newport Street, Leicester Fields, London
- Biography
- The great satirical printmaker. Early work published by William Humphrey and others, before working exclusively for Hannah Humphrey. Paid a pension of £200 p.a. by Pitt's government between 1797 and 1801. Last work in 1811 and died mad.
Trade card in Heal Collection (Heal,3.8) advertises "Gillray, Portrait Painter..."
- Bibliography
- Draper Hill, 'Mr Gillray, the Caricaturist', 1965; his collection (including drawings and Gillray notebooks) sold Phillips, London, 26 June 2001 - see catalogue for transcriptions of notes from 1793-98, lot 33)
Richard Godfrey, 'James Gillray: the art of caricature', exhibition catalogue, Tate, 2001 (with further references)
Sale of Humphrey stock 13 July 1835 (Sc A.1.9(9))
